Dr. Tanowitz is the Principal Investigator on a U.S. National Institutes of Health Fogarty International Center Research Training Grant. Interhemispheric Research/Training in Infectious Disease has the overarching objective of this International Training Grant is the training of biomedical scientists and health professionals from Brazil in infectious diseases research in order to enhance their capabilities to combat the intractable infectious diseases endemic in Brazil. He is also the P.I. on a second grant, Geographic Medicine and Emerging Infections, which provides a multidisciplinary educational program for predoctoral fellows, postdoctoral research and clinical fellows at Einstein. In addition, trainees are offered opportunities to pursue translational research in collaboration with international collaborators in Brazil, India and South Africa.